Jurors weep at sniper trial

JURORS wept yesterday as they listened to a recording of Linda Franklin’s husband wailing and sobbing as he made the emergency call reporting his wife’s sniper shooting.

Jurors weep at sniper trial

“I’m at the Home Depot on Route 50,” William Franklin screamed into a cell phone. The former Marine testified he had been sprayed with his wife’s blood, turned and saw her lying on the pavement. His words on the tape melted into loud cries. “She’s shot in the head. Oh, my God.”

The three-minute 911 recording hushed Courtroom 10 in one of the most emotional moments in John Allen Muhammad’s capital murder trial. Jurors also saw disturbing photos of Linda Franklin’s head wounds and her body lying in the Fairfax County parking lot.

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